CH 26

[Demon King Yuri Is Born!]

――When I opened my eyes, I found myself in the back alley in the ‘Beginning Town’.

No, to be more accurate, the back alley in the special field that looked exactly like the Beginning Town. I couldn’t hear the voices of NPCs hawking their wares, and when I looked up, the sky was dyed red.

As I was grasping the information about the surroundings, a voice suddenly echoed from the sky.

[Well, the battle event has finally begun! I, Navi, the Player-Navigating Fairy, have been tasked to be the commentator for today’s event! Players, long time no see~!]

“Oh, it’s Navi. It sure has been a while since I last saw her.”

I recalled the appearance of the little fairy who had helped me when I started the game.

So she got a job as a commentator, huh. Was she aiming to be the mascot of this game?

[All right, now I will give a little supplementary explanation for the participants who are currently on the special field~!

Can you see the number “30036” at the corner of your vision? That’s the number of players who are still alive!

Also, there’s a barrier surrounding the field, which shrinks as time passes. You can’t go outside the barrier; in other words, you will be fighting while moving toward the center of the town.

You can check your current location on the map, so please be careful not to find yourself in a situation where the barrier is closing in on your back and you have nowhere to escape!]

Listening to Navi’s words, I hurriedly checked the map. I saw that I was currently located just around the corner of fountain square in the middle of the town.

Wait, that meant I was practically at the center! The players were all going to converge here from every direction!

[That’s all for the supplementary explanation! Well then, to all participants of the battle royale, please keep an eye on your recovery potions and do your best~!]

After that, [Now, everyone in the audience, go on and place your bet on who will be the last man standing~! Currently, the most popular choice is Zansword, and…] Navi began to promote gambling. Glad she was doing well.

“Now then, should I get moving?”

Hiding in the back alley like a rat wasn’t my thing. I walked toward the square.

But I had only taken a couple of steps when a mage-like player wearing a hooded robe appeared at the entrance of the alley. He gave me a vulgar smile. “Well, well, look what we’ve got here! I was gonna hide in the alley, and I stumbled upon a dying player! I don’t know nor care where you escaped from, but this is the end of the road for you!”

“Dying? You can see my HP?”

“Clearly, thanks to my rare skill, ‘Vitality Sensing’. I can see there’s only one dot left on your HP bar. I’ll finish you off before you can recover!” As he shouted, the mage manifested his staff and shot a fireball toward me.

This was a back alley, unfortunately. I couldn’t dodge left or right.

“Hyahahaha! Drop dead!!” A confident smile spread across the mage’s face. Oh, but.

“Hup.” I repelled the incoming flame bulled with the back of my fist, extinguishing it. My fist was invincible thanks to the effect of the ‘God-Slaying Fist’ skill.

The mage, having no clue of that, goggled at the scene. “W-w-w-w-what the hell was thaaaaaaaaaaat?!”

“I’ve got no obligation to tell you. Do it, Maa-kun!”

“Nh—!” At that moment, Maa-kun activated his ‘Flickering’ skill. I ran up to the bewildered mage at the speed of sound, and taking advantage of the momentum, I threw an uppercut at him!

“Gugogeeeeeeeee?!” The mage flew high as he screamed. I manifested my bow and shot a jet-black arrow while he was still in midair.

The moment it pierced his heart, a number of my damage-increasing skills were triggered thanks to my extreme Luck.

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‘Genocide Killing’ activates! Damage doubles!

‘Fatal Strike’ activates! Damage doubles!

‘Absolute Zero’ activates! Damage doubles!

Critical hit! Damage triples from hitting a weak point!

‘Heartless Shinigami’ activates! Critical damage increases by 30%!

You have defeated Player: Majio! You have obtained experience points!

+1 event point for Yuri!

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“Okay, that’s one.” I couldn’t help but smile at the good start.

Miss Message mentioned that I’d obtained an event point just now, didn’t she? It should be the thing that I could exchange for rare prizes after the event.

“Then I’ll have to pick up the pace and kill as many players as I can,” I said to myself as I exited from the back alley. Around the fountain, several players were glaring at each other.

They glanced at me, and as soon as they saw my ‘Beginner Bow’, their expressions relaxed.

“Hehe, look. A noob with starting equipment just came.”

“Yeah, with a bow, to boot.”

“How about we put off our fight for now? Let’s compete to see who can turn that young lady into a point first!”

The players approached me with their weapons raised. It seemed it was true that you’d be underestimated when you wore the initial equipment.

But listen here, you arrogant pieces of shit. Sure, my bow was weak, but my arrows were pretty strong, okay?

I grabbed several jet-black arrows and shot them at the players.

“Activate art, ‘Power Burst’! ‘Speed Burst’!”

Receiving my support, the arrows turned into jet-black lasers. They pierced through the players in an instant, reaping three lives at the same time.

“Gugiiiiiiiii?!”

“The hell was thaaaat?!”

“N-no waaaay?! My HP went to zero in one hit…?!”

The players disappeared while raising death throes. Good, this is it, I’m getting revved up!

Today was my first time killing players, it gave me some feelings that killing monsters didn’t.

I felt my heart pounding with excitement as I manifested a huge magic circle underneath my feet——!

“Okay, there’s no more players around now. It is… time to go big!”

At that moment, a great earthquake occurred in response to my will. The ground split open with a huge cracking sound and from the bottom of the earth, a massive plant dragon’s head peeked out!

“Come forth, Gigantic Dragon Plant!!!”

“Gugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

With a roar, a gigantic monster with a total length of over 100 meters appeared in the center of the city of origin.

It was my cute underling, Gigataro. While standing on his shoulder, I gave him an order with a grin.

“Now, Gigataro… burn down everything around us!”

“Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The moment I gave the order, seven huge flowers bloomed from Gigataro’s back.

Their equally large petals opened up, and sun-like light appeared at the centers. When the light’s brilliance reached its limit, the all-obliterating rays were discharged!

‘Genocide Seven Lasers’, Gigantic Dragon Plant’s special move that had super firepower, super range, and the effect of turning terrain into Scorching Zone.

Many screams sounded from the places where the lasers landed on. Furthermore, Gigataro rotated his body in place, leaving nothing around us unburned!

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You have defeated Player: Yario! You have defeated Player: Sil! You have defeated Player: Korin! You have defeated Player: Zansword! You have defeated Player: Crutteruo! You have defeated— 

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You have defeated 7082 players! You have obtained experience points! Yuri has leveled up to level 38!

+7082 event points for Yuri!

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“Pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! That hit the spooooooooot!” I wiped away my sweat refreshingly while looking over the surrounding area that had transformed into a Scorching Zone.

I earned a large number of event points, and on top of that, my level instantly went up by 8!

I sure was glad to have you around, Gigataro! Thanks to you, I was able to slaughter so many players that Miss Message became bugged!

“Thanks~ Gigataro!”

“Gugaga~!” Gigataro let out a fawning voice receiving my thanks. He tried to touch me with his tentacles, but before he could, he vanished. His ten seconds limit must be up.

Having lost my foothold, I fell to the ground.

“Now, what should I do?”

While falling from an altitude of 100 meters, I turned my attention to the area that had been transformed into Scorching Zone.

Here and there sprawled players that had been sent flying by the after-effect of the rays and dying players whose armor had been badly damaged by the rays’ armor-breaking effect.

They all seemed to be in a state of confusion, unable to comprehend what had happened. Seeing them brought a smile to my face. “Alright, I guess I’ll raise the levels of my new underlings!”

I made a summoning formation while falling, and the boss monster, Vanishing Firebird, appeared from it!

Ah, now that he’d been reduced to level 1, his race name was now ‘Vanishing Fire Chun Chun’, wasn’t it? But starting now, I was gonna restore his dignity as a boss monster.

“Piyoooooo!”

“Okay, you’re up, Chuntaro!”

His size might be inferior to Gigataro, but he was still many times bigger than players. I landed on his bright red and fluffy back.

Our targets were the dying players sprawling around the Scorching Zone. I had Chuntaro move to the sky over them, then I gave support to my cute pet.

“Rampage as much as you want, Chuntaro! Activate art, ‘Hyper Magic Burst’!”

“Piyoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

At that moment, flames erupted from Chuntaro’s wings and splendid peacock’s-like tail feathers!

Thanks to my art, his Magic had been multiplied by 5x.

Chuntaro glared at the ‘preys’ sprawled on the ground, then he let out a ferocious cry as he fired more than 100 fireballs toward the ground—!

“I-it’s fireballs! Fireballs are raining down from the sky!”

“What the hell is going ooon?!”

“First it’s DP (Dragon Plant), and now Firebird?! Somebody explain what’s happening!!”

The players all screamed. Already confused by Gigataro’s killing rays, they had no way of surviving Chuntaro’s airstrike.

In the blink of an eye, the players were engulfed in flames, and hundreds of lives were extinguished accompanied by dying screams.

“Come on, come on, come on, the party’s just getting started! I’ll show you how scary a Summoner can be!”

As Chuntaro made the rounds of the Scorching Zone while continuing his airstrikes, I made two new large summoning formations.

‘Goblin King’ and ‘Wolf King’ shot out from them energetically! They let out excited cries as they dived down toward the players!

“Gogaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

Taking advantage of the momentum of his fall, Gobutaro swung down his huge club at the same time as he landed.

As a result, some players who were panicking because of the flames wrapping their bodies at his landing point instantly became stains on the ground.

“Awooooooooo!”

“W-w-w-w-w-why are boss monsters here?!”

None of the players could escape. Urutaro, boasting exceptional swiftness, chased after the players who were trying to get outside of the Scorching Zone and ripped them apart with his teeth and claws. The more he killed, the higher his level and speed became, and in no time the runaways all felled by him.

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You have defeated 877 players! You have obtained experience points! Yuri has reached level 40!

+877 event points for Yuri!

Now that you have reached level 40, you can now use High Summoner’s special art ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’.

・Special art ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’, MP cost: 500, Cooldown: 600 seconds, No chanting required.

“For 30 seconds, the number of monsters that can be summoned becomes unlimited.”

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“Hmm, hmm—wait, the number of monsters that can be summoned becomes unlimited?!”

It really was a special art! It could only be used once every 10 minutes, and consumed 10 times more MP than ‘Hyper Power Burst’. It would drain up almost all of my MP, but it would be worth it…! That was just what special art was.

I had Chuntaro moved to the center of the square while recovering my MP by downing a recovery potion. I supposed I should say as I had expected, when we arrived, the square was crowded with quite a few lucky survivors.

All of them looked exhausted. None of them seemed to have the will to fight anymore, and they just drank their recovery potions with pale faces.

Before massacring them, I apologized in advance, “Hey, guys. I’m planning to be the last man standing, so I’m sorry, but I must have you guys forfeit.”

The players looked up hearing my voice.

Seeing me riding a boss monster, they directed looks of confusion at me.

“W-who’s that beautiful girl?!”

“Why is she riding the boss monster as if it’s hers…! Rather, why’s she holding the ‘Beginner Bow’?!”

“J-just what’s going on with this event?! Or rather, who the hell are you?!”

The players screamed. Among them, some asked “Are you an event boss?!” and “Are you the demon king?!” but I was neither. In fact, I intended to be a hero.

“My name is Yuri. I’m a Summoner, use the bow, and have put all my stat points into Luck! Yes, I’m the culmination of everything you deem as trash!

And I’m also… the one who will be annihilating all of youuuuuuuuu!”

I raised up my arms toward the sky and activated the ‘Destructive Frenzied Summon’!

At that moment, over a hundred summoning formations appeared in the sky above the red-stained city.

A mass of monsters overflowed from them! Wolves, goblins, firebirds, worms, and other mob monsters I had encountered along my journey since day one rained down on the players!

[Awooooooooooooo!]

[Gobugobuuuuuuuuu!]

[Pyoooooooooooooo!]

[Pigyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!]

The monsters cried as they went on to attack the players.

Facing them, the players cried out all at once!

“““Wha… what the heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell?!”””

Their screams and death throes echoed throughout the Beginning Town…!